Team Action Slots
It seems that you can’t turn on the TV these days without witnessing the trailer for a new superhero blockbuster – and this growing trend has now also worked its way into the world of online slots.
Indeed, another new addition to the ever-expanding canon of superhero slots is Merkur Gaming’s Team Action, a semi-adjustable 5-reel slot that follows the adventures of a custom-designed fantastic five as they tackle crime and help you battle your way to some epic jackpot prize payouts.
Crash, bang, wallop
As mentioned above, Team Action is a semi-adjustable slot in that although it can be played with a varying number of paylines enabled, players are restricted to choosing between 5 and 10 only. Bet sizes vary from 5-100 coins per payline in the denomination of the country you’re playing from, meaning the slot can be enjoyed from a minimum of 25 coins all the way up to 1,000 coins per spin.
For that investment, players will have a shot at landing a top regular jackpot of 600x their line bet, with that figure being doubled whenever a wild symbol is used to help complete the winning payline. This rule is expanded to all medium and low value symbols in the game, meaning the presence of wilds significantly boosts your expected winnings throughout and reduces variance.
The wild itself is also a scatter symbol that triggers a free spins feature where players can earn 8, 15 or 25 extra turns, with special rules also applying to make this bonus more profitable (more on this later). Aside from that, Team Action is a fairly straightforward slot to play, with no other additional bonus rounds for players to learn and only two adjustable buttons that really need to be considered.
Team transformations
Given the slot’s title, it’s not a big shock that the theme of Team Action revolves around the lives of five superheroes. Though normal citizens by day, they transform into masked vigilantes by night – and this fact is reflected by special symbols on the reels which depict this during the bonus round.
In effect, this gives the game 10 unique symbols – the five members of Team Action in their ordinary garb and their superhero alter egos – with the rest of the line-up being padded out by the regular King-through-Nine playing card symbols and a special scatter symbol featuring the team’s “TA” logo.
The slot’s background features the skyline from a fictional city complete with towering futuristic-looking buildings, while special animations are used to announce winning paylines. During the bonus round these animations feature the game’s five superheroes kicking ass and really add a visual punch to the gameplay, while the music featured is also suitably rousing for a slot of this nature.
No “I” in “Team”
The sole bonus round in Team Action is a free spins feature that is activated whenever three or more “TA” logo scatter symbols appear anywhere on the gameboard. When this happens, not only will your winnings be doubled for any active payline that the logo helps complete, but you’ll also receive 8, 15 or 25 free spins – with this number being based on how many scatter symbols are featured.
When free spins begin, all unique symbols don their masks and become the titular Team Action superheroes, creating an entirely different aesthetic and helping players boost their winnings. This is achieved due to the fact that all superhero icons can now be substituted for each other, meaning any combination of three or more Team Action member results in a win, regardless of the line-up.
Naturally this can result in some pretty epic wins as it essentially turns half of the game’s symbols into wilds, so players will want to have the maximum 10 paylines active to take full advantage. All superhero symbols are worth the maximum prize amount during both the base game and the free spins, so this is significantly boosts your chances of landing the game’s top prize of 600x your bet.
Time for heroes
Although Team Action is very much in keeping with Merkur Gaming’s simple, gameplay-driven approach to slot machines, it is still a very engaging game due to its lucrative bonus round. This feature comes around often enough to have a significant bearing on the slot’s Return To Player statistics, making it a great title to boost your bankroll on without making too big of an investment.
